Mulatu Astatke - Mulatu Of Ethiopia album flac

Mulatu Of Ethiopia by Mulatu Astatke, released 19 May 2017 1. Mulatu 2. Mascaram Setaba 3. Dewel 4. Kulunmanqueleshi 5. Kasalefkut-Hulu 6. Munaye 7. Chifara Strut present the first official reissue of a landmark album in the field of African music, Mulatu Astatke’s ‘Mulatu Of Ethiopia’ from 1972. Recorded in New York, the album arrived at a time when Astatke had begun to master the delicate fusion of styles needed to create Ethio jazz. I left the UK for America and studied at Berklee College in Boston.

Mulatu Astatke (Amharic: ሙላቱ አስታጥቄ; French pronunciation: Astatqé; born 19 December 1943) is an Ethiopian musician and arranger considered as the father of Ethio-jazz. Born in the western Ethiopian city of Jimma, Mulatu was musically trained in London, New York City, and Boston where he combined his jazz and Latin music interests with traditional Ethiopian music.

Mulatu Astatqé (also sometimes spelled Mulatu Astatke, as he is on the liner notes to this release) might be most known to international audiences through his tracks on the excellent Ethiopiques CD anthology series of Ethiopian music. Long before those tracks were compiled for that series, however, he had an American release with this 1972 instrumental album, on which he's billed as "Mulatu of Ethiopia. Like much of the best of the circa-early-'70s contemporary Ethiopian music on Ethiopiques, it's a fine, at times captivating blend of late-'60s American soul and.

Mulatu Of Ethiopia is the third album Astatke recorded in New York for the Worthy label but the first with a recognisably Ethiopian character. In his liner notes for Mulatu Of Ethiopia, label owner Gil Snapper makes the prescient prediction that Astatke is destined to make international musical history. A trail-blazing masterpiece which sold only.

Album · 2017 · 14 Songs. Mulatu of Ethiopia Mulatu Astatke. Listen on Apple Music. A funky 1972 Ethio-jazz classic.

Mulatu of Ethiopia was a distinctive record in Astatke’s discography, following the release of his ’60s Latin jazz release Afro-Latin Soul. Mulatu has created a new sound, said producer Gil Snapper on the album jacket. He has taken the ancient five-tone scales of Asia and Africa and woven them into something unique and exciting; a mixture of three cultures, Ethiopian, Puerto Rican and American. Mulatu Astatke is performing at this year’s Psycho Las Vegas festival in August.